August 21-25, 2017 - Herrington Harbour North south to Mobjack Bay

We left our beautiful anchorage on Wye River and headed back across the bay to Herrington Harbour North for the day.  It was time for grocery shopping, laundry and we had two new batteries installed.  We also went to a real restaurant for dinner that night.  This was eclipse Monday but we didn't have the required glasses and couldn't really see much.  On Tuesday we began our trip south to Zimmerman Marine on Mobjack Bay.  We traveled about 5 hours on Tuesday and anchored by the Patuxent Naval Air Station.  It was a nice anchorage but exposed to wind and waves.  Wednesday was our longest day yet - about 9 hours, 88 miles.  Heavier winds were due on Thursday and we wanted to get off the Chesapeake Bay.  As we were approaching our anchorage for the night, there were heavy rain clouds ahead of us.  We slowed down a little and by the time we reached our anchorage, they had passed by.  We had a nice quiet anchorage for the night.  We spent Thursday and Friday at Zimmerman Marine getting the boat ready for repairs and getting ourselves ready to leave for a two-week road trip to Texas, back to Alabama, then to Florida.  We also enjoyed having docktails with Jerry and Wendy, who are in the process of buying the boat that was docked next to us. 

Our last sunrise on the Wye River

A real restaurant for dinner at Herrington Harbour

Beautiful cliffs heading south on the Chesapeake

Beautiful sunset on the Patuxent River

Part of the Patuxent Naval Air Station

Miles and miles of miles and miles of water - looking up the Potomac River

(Washington D.C. is about 90 miles away)

A menhaden fishing boat - the large boat goes out to the fishing

spots and the smaller boats collect the fish

When you travel for 9 hours, you take naps

The storms ahead don't look good - we slowed

down and waited for them to pass

Sunrise over the anchorage on Mobjack Bay

Nice, calm morning from the back deck at Zimmerman Marine

August 16-20, 2017 - Wye River

After spending two days running errands, we left Annapolis, in a little fog, for a three hour trip back across the Chesapeake to one of our favorite anchorages - Wye Island.  We spent three days at Dividing River and two days at Drum Point, on the other side of the island.  We took a 20 mile trip around Wye Island one day, stopping at a picnic spot at the state park for lunch. I took a short hike on one of the hiking trails after lunch.  The next day we took a ride up Pickering Creek and stopped at an Audubon park, but the bugs were so bad we didn't last long. 

On Saturday we moved to the other side of the island to Drum Point and, once again, took a dinghy ride up the Wye River.  Unfortunately, a few miles into our day, the dinghy shut down (again).  Efforts to start it failed, so we called TowBoat US and were told it would be a three hour wait for someone to tow us back to our boat.  I started watching for boats to flag down and it didn't take long for one to come by.  Turns out it was a bunch of college kids who graciously towed us back to the boat.  We invited them onto the boat for a beer, gave them a tour of the boat, and had a delightful time talking to them for a while.  They are high school friends and all were getting ready to head back for their sophomore year in college.  We were so thankful for their help.  We were going to head back to St. Michaels on Sunday, but with no dinghy to use, we just stayed at our peaceful anchorage another day.

It was a little foggy on the Chesapeake as we left Annapolis

Our lunch view the first day at Dividing Creek

Our lunch view the second day at Dividing Creek from

a picnic area in the state park

One of the nice hiking trails around the state park

Tucked back in our anchorage

This is the front side of a waterman's shack at the Audubon park

This is the back side of the waterman's shack - they pull their boats in

and dump all their crabs in the bins

View of Pickering Creek from the Audubon park

Maggie, Dan, Lucy,  Cameron, Christian, Ethan, Matthew -

our new friends

Off they go

They put on a wakeboarding show for us

A beautiful sunset over the Wye River

August 9-15, 2017 - Chester River, Magothy River, Annapolis

After leaving Chestertown, we spent the next five nights anchoring out.  We spent two more nights off the Chester River - one night on the Langford River and the other night on Reed Creek.  Both were beautiful, peaceful anchorages.  We spent some time in the afternoons taking dinghy rides around the area.  We never get tired of the scenery.  On Friday, we crossed the Chesapeake to the western side and spent 3 nights on the Magothy River.  Since this area is between Annapolis and Baltimore, there are more homes, people, and boaters.  The first night we anchored across from a beautiful horse farm; the next two nights in a nice cove called the Glass House anchorage (because there is a big glass house at the entrance to the cove).  On Monday, we headed for Annapolis for a few days.  We docked at Annapolis Landing Marina (where we had stayed two years ago).  We had a little wait for our slip to be vacated before we could get settled in.  Once settled, we took the courtesy car and spent the afternoon running some needed errands. It rained most of Tuesday but we still ran the rest of our errands. We ate dinner Tuesday night at a little neighborhood pub, Davis' Pub, which had been featured on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives.

Our anchorage on the Langford River

The view from our anchorage

Everybody has a duck blind on their property

(You should definitely check for duck season before anchorage in the area)

The view from our Reed Creek anchorage

Beautiful sunset over Reed Creek

Baltimore Lighthouse entering Magothy River

Our view of a beautiful horse farm with about 8 horses grazing by the water

A closer view

The horse farm's view of us

Our anchorage by the glass house

Just a few of the boats out on a nice Sunday afternoon

The glass house

Docked at Annapolis Landing Marina

Docked behind an 80' Hatteras

Davis' Pub - a neighborhood pub established in the 1940s

Aug. 4 - 8, 2017 - Chester River, Chestertown

We left Rock Hall around 10:15 and anchored around 12:30 at Corsica River, off the Chester River.  After a quick lunch, we jumped in the dinghy for some sightseeing.  Unfortunately, about 30 minutes into a trip the motor stopped.  Jack started rowing back to the boat and, after about an hour and a half, we flagged down a passing boater who kindly towed us back to the boat.  Turns out a shutoff switch had jarred closed.  So after fixing that, everything was fine.  Saturday morning, it was pretty windy at our anchorage so we moved up the river a little to get more protection.  Then it was back in the dinghy to tour the little town of Centreville which was incorporated in 1794.  There was a nice town dock where we left the dinghy and walked into town and lucked into a farmer's market.

Sunday we moved from our anchorage on the Corsica River back to the Chester River and anchored at Conquest Beach.  This was a pretty popular area and by 1:00 it was filled with boats.  We took the dinghy to shore and walked the beach for a while, then took another dinghy ride around the river.  We woke up Monday to rain, so we just stayed put for the day and, after spending a little time in the engine room, we enjoyed the rainy day.

Tuesday we left our anchorage and headed about 10 miles up the Chester River to the town of Chestertown, the county seat for Kent County since 1706.  The town is also known for having its own Revolutionary Tea Party in 1774 just shortly after the Boston Tea Party.  The town is full of 18th and 19th century buildings that are still standing today.  We spent the day walking around the town, going into the shops, and having lunch.  It was a very busy little town.

One of the many huge mansions along the Corsica River

Being towed back to the boat - again

Beautiful sunset over Corsica River

Walking the streets in Centreville - probably the largest

crepe myrtle we had ever seen

Historic downtown of Centreville

Behind all of the huge mansions are acres and acres of corn -

we understand it is used for ethanol

We think this house belongs to the owner of the Baltimore Ravens.  He

supposedly had a yacht that he keeps at his house at times and

this is the largest dock we saw along the river

Beautiful anchorage on the Corsica River

This mansion originally belonged to the builder of the

Empire State Building but is now owned by the former

Soviet Union and used by members of its embassy

Our anchorage at Conquest Beach

A lot of boaters at the beach on a beautiful Sunday afternoon

Jack down checking the props

Rainy days and Mondays - always good on a boat

A little history regarding Chestertown

A beautiful garden between two historic homes in Chestertown

The main street in downtown Chestertown

One of the many historic homes built in the early 1700s

These historic homes line the streets

Afternoon snack time - I had to steer clear of them walking back to the boat

George Washington slept here during the Revolutionary War.  The president

of Washington University (in Chestertown) lives here now.